nixie

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I think of the river and how, when one nixie detached from the others, Cardan waited until it paused and then left so we could get out of the water.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

"Cat eyes," "nixie eyes," are samples of the epithets bestowed upon them.

From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann

The male is called nix, the female nixie, the generic term for both being nicker, from a root which perhaps means ‘to wash.’

From Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine by Spence, Lewis

"This is a nixie trying to lure me to the depth," I thought.

From A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)

It was whispered among them that she was a nixie from the Mummel-lake far under the mountains, for never mortal was so richly endowed with beauty and grace.

From Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine by Spence, Lewis